While the Prime Minister receives recognition and praise from the terror regime’s envoys on Frogner in Oslo, the executioners’ machinery in Tehran is operating at full speed with a brutality the world has scarcely witnessed the like of. In the course of merely two days in January, 43,000 people were killed, making this the deadliest protest massacre in modern history. This is not statistics; it is an industrial extermination of opposition figures within the regime’s own civilian population because they demand fundamental rights and freedoms.

Recently, we received two shocking examples of this madness: An Iranian father was tortured to death in front of his family for having used Starlink during an internet blackout to tell the world the truth. At the same time, a 21-year-old karate champion was executed by hanging for his participation in the protests against the regime. On Saturday 2 May, Yaghoub Karimpour and Nasser Bekrzadeh were executed in the central prison in Urmia. On Sunday 3 May, Mehrab Abdollahzadeh was executed in the same prison. On Monday 4 May, Iranian state media reported that three men, Mehdi Rasouli, Mohammadreza Miri and Ebrahim Dolatabadi, were executed in Mashhad. All of them were killed by the same executioners and mass murderers who praise Støre and the foreign policy of the Labour Party.

These are the realities. We are witnessing a darkness that has accelerated violently. Since February 2026, the regime has initiated a wave of executions without parallel in order to crush every hope of freedom. They kill fathers and mothers seeking information, and they kill children and young people who dream of a future.

In the midst of this darkness, we thus see that the terror regime’s embassy in Norway finds it expedient and necessary to praise Jonas Gahr Støre and his foreign policy. This raises a fundamental question that cannot be answered with diplomatic platitudes and the familiar foggy rhetoric of Støre: What is it about the shameful conduct of Støre and Norway that causes a regime responsible for systematic rape, torture, arbitrary arrests and the mass killing of tens of thousands to feel it necessary to praise Støre?

For decades, Norwegian foreign policy has created a false narrative that it is effective and successful, and has been infatuated with the role of “master of dialogue”. But in the face of a regime that violates every human right, convention and law, and has the export of terror and murder as its foremost hallmark, dialogue has long since lost its value and significance. Instead, it has become a one-way street in which the clerical regime uses Norwegian social-democratic boundless naivety, incompetence, indifference and grandiose narcissistic needs as an international shield. They use the open doors and channels of Støre and the Labour Party to whitewash their own reputation, while continuing to fill the mass graves in Iran.

When the Iranian embassy praises Støre, it is not because they have become more humane. It is because they feel secure that Norwegian criticism remains irrelevant and a mere performance for appearances’ sake. They know that Norwegian diplomacy is not followed by real sanctions and actions that actually threaten the regime’s existence, quite the contrary. For while all our European and democratic allies stood united in a moral boycott, Norway, as usual, chose another path and unilateral action in favour of the mass murderers in Tehran.

In February 2023, while the Iranian regime still had blood on its hands after crushing the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests, Norway stood together with Poland among the countries that chose to celebrate the Iranian Revolution Day. The participation provoked strong reactions both in Norway and internationally, as most other democratic countries in the world chose to stay away in solidarity with the Iranian people and the demonstrators. This type of diplomatic unilateralism, which has become the hallmark of the Støre government, sends a signal of acceptance that is totally incompatible with the values Norway otherwise, without credibility, claims to defend.

Jonas Gahr Støre and the Labour Party must cease being the terror regime’s useful idiots and lackeys in the pursuit of insignificant diplomatic points and gratification of their own self-image. Labour’s “dialogue” functions as a legitimisation of the clerical regime’s barbarity. History will not be merciful towards them; just as posterity delivered a devastating judgement upon those who stood on the wrong side during the Second World War, history will judge those who today choose appeasement rather than confronting the worst tyrants of our age.

A substantial change of course is required, something that is impossible with Støre and the Labour Party in power. We who have lost many of our loved ones and those close to us during the past pitch-dark months demand that the Iranian ambassador be met with an ultimatum to leave the country and shut down the terror and espionage camp in Oslo, not diplomatic protocol and boundless goodwill. Støre and Norway must cease legitimising a regime that has systematically committed the worst crimes against human beings and humanity throughout its entire existence of nearly half a century. Sanctions must be implemented that actually isolate the executioners’ apparatus of power, not support it.

Støre and the Labour Party must urgently understand that in the struggle between absolute barbarity, tyranny, evil and human freedom, there exists no neutral middle position. Friendly dialogue and association with one of history’s worst terror regimes is not diplomacy – it is appeasement. The very least Støre and his incompetent government can do for the memory of those who have been killed and those waiting for the gallows is to refuse to accept praise from their executioners.

The warning lights are flashing over Norwegian foreign policy, in all areas. The question is whether the voters see them, understand the gravity, realise the consequences and act accordingly at the next election.

I shall conclude by quoting the great Persian poet Saadi, from the poem Bani Adam “The Sons of Adam”, who in the thirteenth century immortalised these lines that today adorn the entrance to the United Nations building in New York: